The infrastructure of our street in Maple Bluff has been undergoing construction for months now. The work has proceeded in fits and starts and all in all much more slowly than anticipated. It has made life rather inconvenient from time to time. Still, I find the whole process fascinating. Part of it is probably due to the lure of the construction equipment — the big dump trucks, the excavators, the bulldozers — and the work they do. In the following photos I have tried to capture some of what has been happening during the work that has been going on here as well as some of my interest in the equipment itself. I will be posting a few construction photo galleries
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- An excavator begins to rip up pavement.
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- An excavator will lift the debris into the dump truck behind it.
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- The excavator fills the dump truck.
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- Our house with no street
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- Our neighbor’s house framed by arm of excavator working in front of our house
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- Oops. A water main is accidentally broken. The break gets a quick response.
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- Recent rains have made the area’s street construction a muddy mess.
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- More mud from recent rains.
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